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Re:What will C++17 be? by jeremyjh on Sunday April 26, 2015 @08:39AM (#9441551)
That's all well and good up to a point - but large production systems need repeatable builds that do not depend on the developers OS version or patch level. Eventually you have to vendor every dependency.
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Re:What will C++17 be? by danieldk on Sunday April 26, 2015 @09:23AM (#9441673)
This is what is called API and ABI stability. Most well-known C and C++ libraries have been API and ABI stable for years.

In practice, this hasn't been a problem for my C++ projects for years, except on OS X where there have been too many changes in a couple of years (gcc -> gcc-llvm -> clang, libstdc++ -> libc++).

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